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♂ William Michael Ryan
aliasWilliam Ryan
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 2 3
Birth 22 November 1887 → 136 years + 5 months ago
Lived 50 years + 1 month
First mandate 14 October 1935 → 88 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 47 years + 10 months
Death 4 January 1938 → 86 years + 3 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
William Michael Ryan (1887–1938)
© Photo 1936 House of Commons (Canada) — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A surprising 6.81% of the 14,280 elected Canadian parliamentarians have died while in office, for a total of 972 in the 158 years covered by PoliCan, although such deaths have become less common since the last quarter of the 20th century. But on January 4, 1938, both Ryan (the Liberal MP for St. John—Albert in New Brunswick) and George Perley (the Conservative MP for Argenteuil in Quebec), died. Perley's father, William, had also died in office in 1890 while representing City of Ottawa in Parliament.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 2 2 21

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
5 documented challengers
⊖ Thomas Bell  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ D. King Hazen  m 
⊖ Allan G. McAvity  m 
 		 ⊖ Robert T. Hayes  m 
⊖ Murray MacLaren  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 41,028 Votes: 40,114 Participation: 48.89% Candidacies: 4
Federal
16		 New Brunswick
14 September 1926
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22094(F) — 12 Aug 2023 21:56 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to Parliament
Age
38
LIB
 3/4 8,007 39.92% -4,303 Winner:
LC
 12,310 61.38% Thomas Bell
Eligible: 37,067 Votes: 49,815 Participation: 67.20% Candidacies: 4
Federal
17		 New Brunswick
28 July 1930
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 22368(F) — 25 Jan 2022 19:35 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to Parliament
Age
42
LIB
 4/4 8,371 33.61% -8,024 Winner:
LC
 16,395 65.82% Thomas Bell
Eligible: 41,404 Votes: 31,534 Participation: 76.16% Candidacies: 4
Federal
18		 New Brunswick
14 October 1935
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22640(F) — 25 Jan 2022 21:43 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
47
LIB
 1/4 15,125 47.96% +3,482 Loser:
LC
 11,643 36.92% D. King Hazen
After his election:
4 Jan 1938 50
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 2 years 2 months 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 41,404 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Federal
18		 New Brunswick
21 February 1938
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22848(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
50		 Successor:
LIB
 Acclam. Allan G. McAvity

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
William Michael Ryan, M.P.		 27 Apr 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
William Michael Ryan, député		 27 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
William Ryan (Canadian politician)		 27 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
William Michael Ryan		 27 Apr 2024

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 27 Apr 2024 10:39 (but data presented dynamically)

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